No wonder Putin is afraid of the film and had it "banned" in Russia. He can't stand his people learning the truth being told about the murderous butcher Stalin, his inner circle of sycophants and the habitual terror the Soviets lived under throughout his terribe reign.
Putin LOVES Stalin and the good old, bad old days of the Soviet Union.
The good news is Putin's ban has assured the film's success throughout the former USSR and the world. Russians are streaming, watching, downloading and disseminating bootleg copies of the film found for free on the Internet.
Saw this on a flight yesterday returning from England. Dark humor. Mostly the situation itself is absurd. Steve Buscemi as Nikita “Nickie” Kruschev should give you some idea.
Fully agreed, this definitely is worth watching, like how Animal Farm and 1984 should be required reading for at least a taste of how bad communism and socialism are.
And funny how one of the so-called reasons for it being banned besides obviously the bits about Stalin dealt with how it apparently “mocked” veterans of the Eastern front, since one of the best characters in the movie, not to mention one of the few characters to actually be good, or close to that anyways, is Field Marshal Grigory Zhukov, who, as the film reminds us, was pretty much the guy responsible for driving out the Nazi Germans during the Eastern Front at the very least. That if anything sounds like a heckuva promotion of Eastern Front veterans, not mockery or ridicule of them.